Francesca Neri: I thought of killing myself from the pain of the disease
2021-09-28 14:45:15
TiranaPost
The book 'Come carne viva', on the life of Francesca Neri, edited by Rizzoli, has been published in the bookstore. The Italian actress talks about the chronic illness that changed her life, because it caused and still causes great pain.
It is "Interstitial Cystitis", a non-infectious disease, but which causes great pain.
"The acute phase lasted three years and I did not get over it. There is no cure, you just learn how to manage it and not to provoke physical pain and not to feel incompetent. The first two years, I who do not believe in social media, I was in the group of women suffering from the same disease. I wanted to be alone. I had to protect Claudion and Rocco, my son. I am the head of the family who takes care of everything. I was away from them, outside the house, when I was actually there physically. This is the most horrible thing I have ever experienced. I thought suicide. I spent months playing online all night. "My isolation lasted 3 years", the actress says.
She adds that the support of Claudio, her partner has been important, but that her biggest pain has been the boy.
"The biggest pain was for my son, I wrote this book for him," says Neri.
She also talks about the vicissitudes and interventions in hospitals and says:
"I have found a balance, I have to learn to maintain it. I began to deprive myself of things that might elicit a reaction. Air conditioning, heat, certain foods. The bladder (bladder) is a wall and if damaged, internal wounds are created. "I know them well, I also have them in my soul", she says.
